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RANKLY REPRESENTATIVE OF THE Ac- 
tivities, industries and resources of 

ST. LUCIE COUNTY, FLORIDA, 

this booklet is an authoritative reply to many 
questions regarding the opportunities in our 
towns and communities, possibilities in soil 
and stream, health in climate and pleasure in 
the picturesque. 

It is doubtful whether there is in any other 
part of the continent so extensive a body of land of equal richness. 
Agricultural expert, working from a scientific basis, is here realiz- 
ing the promise of great achievement ; the northern farmer is here 
realizing larger profits from a less acreage than he cultivated back 
home; the keen-eyed investor is here with dollars earning from 10 
per cent, to 25 per cent, on their investment; professional men 
from all sections are here sharing the profits and reaping the ex- 
pectations of conservatively planned development. 

Another object of this booklet is to encourage the movement, 
"See America First" — to induce people to familiarize themselves 
with the wonders of their own Florida, the beauty of the Ameri- 
can "Riviera" and the Indian river and to help prove that they can 
see more at home than abroad in the way of nature's workings. 

The St. Lucie Board of Trade has no land for sale; it does not 
recommend one section of the splendid county above another, for 
all have their attractions. The booklet simply aims to present the 
truth about the county, and as such is worth careful reading and 
preservation for reference. 

PUBLICATION COMMITTEE, 

THE ST. LUCIE COUNTY BOARD OF TRADE. 



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ST. Lucie county is nearly ten years of age. When 
she became a county on her own account, the en- 
tire population numbered about 1,200, while the 
new county seat, Fort Pierce, had only about 800 people. 

Big things have happened in the short space of ten 
years. 

The entire country is beginning to know that there 
is a Florida, and that Florida has a St. Lucie county 
where great developments are being completed by 
nationally prominent financiers, and out of the waste 
places are being made groves and gardens, good roads 
and new centers of population, forcing St. Lucie county 
to lead many older counties of the State. Location, 
climate and soil are helping along these transforma- 
tion scenes and further perfection is reflected in the 
activities of clean-cut business farmers. 

In a little less than five years millions of dollars 
have been expended by individuals and land companies 
in the digging of large canals, erection of bridges, and 
the construction of good roads, with the result that 
hundreds of families have settled on the county lands 
and are developing them along intensive lines. 

ST. LUCIE'S SUPERB CLIMATE. 

St. Lucie's summers are springs: its winters, 
autumns. Many people believe Florida's summer 
weather must be proportionate to its latitudinal posi- 
tion, but the truth is that in Florida the weather is de- 
lightful the entire year, and those who live here both 
summer and winter will tell you that summer time 
here is much more pleasant than in the middle and 
northern States. 

The thermometer rarely registers above 92 de- 
grees, and even this degree of temperature is not 




Huston Fruit Company's Tomato Field at Vero. 

realized owing to the continuous trade winds. To this 
wind, also, is due our cool nights, invariably permit- 
ting refreshing sleep. 

Work is carried on here in summer as well as in 
winter. We do not stagnate, neither are we over- 
come with lassitude, as many believe who do not know. 
It is never too hot to work, and a case of prostration is 
rarely known anywhere in Florida, even among labor- 
ers exposed to the direct heat of the sun all day, every 
day. 

As far as the opportunities of her marvelous cli- 
mate are realized, Florida is in her infancy. Under the 
Florida sunshine, agriculture flourishes winter and 
summer, having a double monetary value compared 
with northern climes. This double-duty climate is be- 
ing sought more and more, it increases the wealth of 
our people, expands our cities and towns and makes 
life easier; it disproves forever the fallacy, that as far 
as Florida and St. Lucie county are concerned, the 
lower the latitude the higher the heat. 

Government statistics show that Florida has the 
lowest death rate of any State in the Union. It is a 
State where thousands of people come for their health. 

St. Lucie county's average is below the average for 
the State. Here we have a congenial climate — no 
earthquakes, cyclones, devastating storms: no severe 
cold, no extreme heat. You can sleep out of doors the 
entire year. 

Do not come to your new home penniless. It may 
take less in Florida to make a new start, but it takes 
something — several hundred dollars at the very least. 

St. Lucie county has no openings for the man with- 
out ambition or without some money. 



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UNITED STATES WEATHER BUREAU 
STATISTICS. 



The following table of temperature and rainfall, 
based on a ten-year average from United States 
Weather Bureau statistics, will give the prospective 
homeseeker a comprehensive idea of what to expect in 
temperature and rainfall in St. Lucie county. 



January 
February 
March . . . 
April .... 

May 

June .... 

July 

August 

September 

October 

November 

December 

Annual 



.Mean .Montltl.v and 

Average TeinptTature 

ill Degree!*. 

62 
65 
69 
73 
77 
80 
82 
83 
81 
75 
73 
66 
74 



Average .Monthly and 

Tutal KainfaU. 

Inches anil Tenths. 

4.3 
4.0 
3.3 
2.8 
3.9 
5.5 
5.9 
6.6 
6.9 
4.7 
3.1 
2.5 
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SOCIAL SURROUNDINGS. 

When anyone considers going into a new country, 
the question suggests itself, "What class of people will 
1 meet?" St. Lucie county contains some of the best 
people — live, cultured, progressive; people who have 
tome here to work out their destiny in developing the 
natural resources of the county. You will be pleased 
with your St. Lucie county neighbors. It is the as- 
eimilation of ideas from various sections of the coun- 
try which is doing so much in forwarding the county's 
interests. 



There is no social, political or religious ostracism in 
the county. This condition is the natural result of an 
influx of people with opinions of all kinds from which 
has sprung the broadest spirit of tolerance and liberal- 
ity. A constant stream of new ideas flowing into the 
community tends to formulate the wisest advance- 
ment in all circles of our governmental and social 
structures. 

TRANSPORTATION. 

St. Lucie county has the main line of the Florida 
East Coast Railway running along the western shore 
of the Indian river the entire length of the county. 
This line gives transportation to all the prominent 
points of the county. This same company will shortly 
open a new line running to Okeechobee along the east- 
ern border of the county, which opens up a section that 
will blossom and thrive under the stimulus of much- 
needed transportation. 

The Fellsmere railroad runs from SeDastian, direct- 
ly eastward, through the Fellsmere agricultural dis- 
trict. 

It is believed that the Seaboard Air Line railway is 
coming to the East Coast at a point near St. Lucie, said 
to be one of the best places for a deep-water port be- 
tween Jacksonville and the south end of the peninsula. 
This road is building eastward through the Crooked 
lake country and it is not thought that it will stop un- 
til it reaches the East Coast. 

RIVER TRANSPORTATION, 

The Indian river is really a long narrow inlet of the 
Atlantic ocean from which it is separated by a fringe 




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of land, or outer reef. This stretch of water forms a 
part of the inland waterway from the North to Kej' 
West. 

There is a movement looking to the government to 
takeover this river, and connecting canal system, which 
if consummated, would open up large possibilities for 
the development of water transportation facilities for 
St. Lucie county. These possibilities are fully realized 
now, but little advantage has yet been taken for the de- 
velopment of our commerce along waterborne routes. 
There is, however, a good amount of traffic and during 
the winter, several regular pleasure passenger lines. 



ST. LUCIE'S GOOD ROADS. 

Good roads are among the most convincing evi- 
dence of the substantial nature of the advance and 
progress of the county. St. Lucie's net-work of good 
toads is not surpassed by any other Florida county. 
Nine years ago there was not one mile of hard sur- 
faced roads in the county. Today there's a hundred 
miles of county roads and another hundred miles being 
built by the land development companies, which, with 
other roads contemplated by the County Commission- 
ers and townsitc and land firms, will mean that in five 
years there will be close to five hundred miles of hard 
surfaced roads in a county only 40 miles square. 

Fifty miles of the present net-work forms a part of 
the great national highway from Montreal to Miami, 
and there is no finer drive in the world, skirting as it 
does the Indian river, among the most picturesque riv- 



ers of the country. The automobilist passes hundreds 
of acres of orange groves and pineapple plantations. 
Fringed along the river are many handsome homes, 
with a beautiful panorama of palms, ever-blooming 
hybiscus and tropical plants and flowers. 

From Fort Pierce, south, the road hugs the bank of 
the river for twenty miles, one of the prettiest terraced 
banks to a river to be found in America, giving to this 
driveway the justified designation of THE AMERICAN 
RIVIERA. 



THE COUNTY SCHOOL SYSTEM. 

The county has a splendid school system which is 
being improved each year. The county officials are 
erecting the attractive school building shown on page 
21, at a cost of $75,000. There are school houses in 
all parts of the county where the number of pupils 
justifies maintenance. 



EXPLAINING ST. LUCIE'S DRAINAGE 
OPERATIONS. 

Mention is frequently made of draining the lands 
and of canal systems, throughout this booklet, that a 
brief explanation will clear away any misconceptions 
regarding the condition of the land. 

St. Lucie county is not a swamp. During certain 
seasons of the year, the water falling on the broad, 
level land took such a long time to flow off that agri- 
lulture as seen today was impracticable. The many 
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Packing House of the Allapatahatchee Fruit and Vegetable 
Company, on Ten-Mile Creek. 

quick and satisfactory channel whereby the water may 
flow off the lands into the Indian river. 

SOIL. 

Prof. Chas. N. Mooney, U. S. Bureau of Soil Survey, 
recently declared in a speech in Florida that there was 
no poor soil in Florida. The white sand over which 
anyone could pass a handkerchief without soiling was 
producing the finest pineapples on the American con- 
tinent. It was merely a matter of knowing what to 
plant. 

Practically every acre of St. Lucie soil is capable of 
producing something. Every month, almost, we learn 
of new possibilities. 

The United States Department of Agriculture 
places the average value of crops per acre in St. Lucie 
county at $125 — exceeded only by one "hot-house" 
county of Long Island. 

Ten acres in St. Lucie county should be made to 
yield an income exceeding 6 per cent, on $50,000 to 
$100,000 of United States bonds. 



In nine years some of the finest orange and grape- 
fruit groves in Florida have been developed by indi- 
viduals in St. Lucie county. There are scores of these 
2nd they are making money. One man has taken a 
profit of $14,000 off his grove in one season. New 
groves are springing up in every direction, and eventu- 
ally the entire county will be a garden spot. 

BIG CROPS— GOOD PRICES. 

Three to five crops yearly. Twelve months growing 
season. 

Only four weeks to a hundred days required for 
winter vegetable crops. 

About seventy varieties of fruits and nearly as 
many kinds of vegetables are grown in St. Lucie coun- 
ty. Owing to superior quality, about 20 per cent high- 
er prices are secured for Florida oranges and grape- 
fruit than for similar California poducts. 

OFFICIAL AVERAGES. 

The following is taken from page 188 of a bulletin 
of the Florida State Department of Agriculture : 

"The success of vegetable growing in Florida is too 
well known to justify going into lengthy details as to 
methods of cultivation or transportation. Among the 
most profitable crops are tomatoes, beans, Irish pota- 
toes, celery, cabbage, lettuce, peppers, eggplant. From 
the growing of each of these vegetables thousands of 
people reap a rich reward for their labor every year, 
and many of them make comfortable fortunes; most, 
if not all of these vegetables are grown at seasons of 
the year which enable them to command a monopoly 
of the markets, as well as prices. Many of these crops 
bring handsome returns. Tomatoes, for instance, have 
yielded as high as $1,000 per acre, but the average 
runs from $300 to $500. Irish potatoes will average 
near to $100. Lettuce from $300 to $800 per acre." 

To own an orange or grapefruit grove in St. Lucie 




1— BUNGALOWS OF E. S. REED AND F. K. STETSON, AT ST. LUCIE. 

2— NEW BUNGALOW OF F. R. AST, AT WHITE CITY. 

S— HOME OF COUNTY SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENT J. W. HODGE, AT VIKING. 



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Residence of Mrs. L. B. Abdili, Riverside Drive, Eldred. 

county is to belong to the orange nobility. Well-cared- 
for groves return from $500 to $1,000 per acre. 

This is the kind of opportunity that is being 
i^rasped by well-to-do farmers from Illinois, Iowa, In- 
diana, Ohio, Kansas, the eastern States and from Can- 
ada. In increasing numbers these soldiers of agricul- 
ture and horticulture are invading our fertile lands, 
here to find plenty more proportionate to the effort ex- 
pended. 

SHIPMENTS ALWAYS BRISK. 

During the past season over 150,000 boxes of or- 
anges and grapefruit were shipped from the county, as 
against 1,500 boxes nine years ago. It is likely that in 
five years St. Lucie will lead every county in the State 
in this great industry, as thousands of acres have been 
set, and are being set to trees, all of which will be pro- 
ducing by that time. 

The shipping season overlaps. One crop has scarce- 
ly time to get out of the way before another overtakes 
it. When the citrus fruit season is tapering off, the 
vegetable shipping comes on. 

There is not another State in the Union that yields 
such a variety and abundance of the products of the 
soil and at such remunerative prices as in Florida. 

SUGAR CANE. 

St. Lucie county should rank with the great sugar 
producing sections. There are thousands of acres ad- 
mirably adapted for the growing of sugar cane. As 
high as 46 tons to the acre has been raised, yielding 
from 300 to 600 gallons of syrup to the acre. Its culti- 
vation requires little skill or labor. 

LIVE-STOCK RAISING— CATTLE AND HOGS. 

St. Lucie county is going to play a prominent part 




Residence of Mrs. C. T. McCarty, Riverside Drive, Eldred. 

in the development of live stock raising. The climatic 
conditions and forage possibilities are excellent, and 
the only reason this industry has remained dormant, is 
simply because less attention has been given to it than 
to vegetables and fruits. General farming and stock 
raising will be among the rock-bottom activities of the 
county. There is opportunity here for men desirous of 
entering this line of industry. 

POULTRY. 

It is safe to say that over 100,000 dozen eggs and 
10,000 chickens are imported here yearly, or nearly 
$50,000 for this one item going out of the county which 
ought to stay here were systematic attention given to 
poultry and eggs. Our rapidly increasing population 
creates an unceasing demand. 

EUCALYPTUS MAHOGANY— THE INVESTMENT 
TIMBER. 

Eucalyptus trees grow five times faster than any 
other known hardwood. In two years they will grow 
from twenty to forty feet high and from three to seven 
inches in diameter. Eucalyptus takes a finish equal to, 
and is being used for, the finest mahogany-finished fur- 
niture. 

An acre will grow 800 trees from 75 to 100 feet 
high in from 8 to 10 years, which will furnish about 
100,000 feet of commercial timber, worth at a mini- 
mum price today, $25 per thousand feet. This gives a 
profit of $250 a year while growing trees on a ten acre 
tract. 

This is mentioned as another of the opportunities 
in St. Lucie county. The Eucalyptus tree seems to be 
the only tree that can avert the timber shortage that 
is before the country. 



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SELECTION OF LOCATION. 

One oi your first requirements is a good map of the 
locality. A soil survey map and description from the 
Agricultural Department will give all the drawbacks of 
a county or special locality. To get the map is worth 
while — it gives you facts. 

Next, get in touch with only the reliable real estate 
agent whom the banks will recommend. Avoid un- 
known men, or those whose only interest in you is the 
commission they may earn on the transaction. The re- 
liable man has studied conditions from all angles and 
knows more than you can learn in your brief survey. 

Examine the soil personally. Note the various 
crops — if any. Note the growth, as certain growths 
indicate the character of the soil. 

Study location, proximity to market, the gain of 
the short haul from farm to railroad or boat, the dis- 
tance from hard road, drainage, etc. 

Purchase in the line of developments. It is cheaper 
to pay a higher price for land rightly located, than to 
pay a small price for land at a "jumping off" place. 

Don't be hurried. Ask questions. 

Buy only as much land as you can handle well. 
Then get out of a few acres of St. Lucie county land 
what you have been accustomed to get out of many 
more acres in some other State. Figure on the possi- 
bilities of one acre, and in buying, multiply the acres 
in proportion you are equipped to work them intensive- 
ly to their limit. 

SOME DETAILS. 

To elaborate on the opportunities and resources of 
St. Lucie county would take this entire book. If there's 
anything you want to know, write us about it, or ask 
us about it when you come here. 

Some readers may naturally ask: 

LANDS — What are the kinds of lands in the 
county? 

Hammock, prairie, muck, pine and high sandy. 

COST OF CLEARING— What is the cost of grub- 
bing and clearing? 

Hammock, $50 to $100 per acre; pine, $25 to $40 
per acre; high sandy, $20 to $25 per acre. 

TIMBER VALUES— Is the timber of value? 

Yes. In some cases for lumber, in others for 
strand-wood. 



CONDITION OF MUCK LANDS— Are muck lands 
ready for the plow when drained? 

No. Usually a coarse grass which is standing must 
be cut or burned. 

IRRIGATION — Is irrigation necessary? 

Not as a general rule. 

ARTESIAN WELLS— Is St. Lucie county in the 
artesian belt? 

Yes. A flow can be had at from 300 to 500 feet 
deep. 

COST OF WELLS— What is the cost of digging a 
well? 

About $1.25 per foot. 

SURFACE IRRIGATION— Is surface irrigation 
used? 

Yes. During March and April it is frequently dry 
and it is an excellent safeguard to be able to turn water 
onto the crops. A six-inch well will irrigate fifty acres. 

FERTILIZATION— Do you fertilize in St. Lucie 
county? 

Yes. Fertilizing and intensive farming go hand-in- 
hand, brings quicker results. It pays in the same way 
that it pays to feed corn to hogs to fatten them. 




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Irish Potatoes Growing on Prairie Muck Land. 

WHAT KIND OF FERTILIZER— All fertilizers 
sold in Florida are under State supervision. All com- 
panies will aid you at any time. 

COME AND SEE. 
No matter how glowing the outlook the prospective 



settler must not be over-confident of his future in Flor- 
ida. There are obstacles and difficulties to be mas- 
tered. Old methods will not bring results. The new- 
comer must adapt himself to Florida conditions. For 
this reason, having nothing to unlearn, the merchant 
or the artisan frequently has an advantage over the 
seasoned farmer. 

The only safe way is to come and see, and not buy 
through the mail or through the representation of an 
agent of any land company. See before you buy. Then 
you will know what you are buying and where your 
land is located — two essential items bearing on your 
success. 

HOMESEEKERS' EXCURSIONS. 

Homeseekers' tickets, good for twenty-five days, 
are issued every first and third Tuesday of each month 
from all principal central western points. This is an 
ample allowance to thoroughly investigate any locality. 

You will find St. Lucie county a wonderful place, 
and if you perfect your plans to cast your lot here with 
us, you will find a hearty welcome awaiting you. 




1— ONE OF THE LARGE DREDGES THAT EXCAVATED THE MAIN AND LATERAL CANALS AT FELLSMERE FARMS. 
2— TAYLOR CREEK INTO WHICH THE MAIN CANAL OF THE FORT PIERCE FARMS FLOWS TO THE INDIAN RIVER. 
3— A FLOWING ARTESIAN WELL— THESE MAY BE HAD ANYWHERE IN FORTUNATE ST. LUCIE COUNTY. 
4— ON THE SLOPE OF THE MAIN OUTFALL CANAL OF THE INDIAN RIVER FARMS AT VERO. 

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Club House of Mid-Rivers Country Club. 

WHY is Jensen different, yet among the most 
promising towns in St. Lucie county? 
Because Jensen, devoted to tradition, is a 
place of leisure and decidedly the place for the pros- 
pective home-buying resident to visit before selecting 
a residence elsewhere. 

Inherently possessing advantages that stamp her 
doubly attractive, Jensen lies on the picturesque Indian 
river shore, a river frequently referred to in verse and 
prose. Jensen has the most available riparian location 
that can be offered along the river-front hereabouts, 
for there is an absence of marsh land along the shore 
for twenty miles to the north and ten miles to the 
south, and Jensen's river-front boulevard permits any- 
one to reach the water's edge without obtaining per- 
mission from those holding riparian privileges which 
so often precludes the average person from the pleas- 



Tennis Court of Mid-Rivers Country Club. 

ure of fishing and boating on a beautiful expanse of 
water elsewhere, and which so frequently mars the 
utility of a town's water-front. 

Along this boulevard is a veritable exhibition of 
foliage. At times, the palmetto trees stand in those 
groups featured so prominently in pictures of the 
semi-tropics. As you glance through these trees, you 
will see lone cranes standing stolidly in their incessant 
quest for food. All around the mullet will be jumping, 
yet Mr. Crane never moves until an unwary fish comes 
close enough and then, with a dip indescribably rapid, 
the crane snaps his meal. 

On the shore side, you will pass through the bulk 
of the pineapple belt that has brought fame to this 
county. For 25 miles you can drive by these fields, re- 
lieved here and there by flowering shrubs and fruit 
trees. It is a study in nature for anyone to travel 




1— RESIDENCE OF C. H. RACEY. "MOUNT ELIZABETH.' 



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Residence of George S. Saylor, Riverside Drive, Ankona. 

leisurely, noting the variety of temperate zone and 
semi-tropical fruits — guava, fig, date, banana, etc., 
alongside the peach and other more northern trees. 
This road resembles a long lane through a grove and 
garden, and those who develop these beautiful places 
have the placid, sleeping river to look out upon after 
each day of labor — restful and inspiring. 

Jensen is one of the oldest towns along the East 
Coast and boasts that it can offer more beautiful home- 
sites than on any other given frontage along the river. 
Jensen has never experienced the developing of her 
natural beauty which would usually create a boom to a 
similar location, but she remains content to advance in 
proportion to her assimilation of new residents. This 
growth is unhurried as there is not more than one mile 
of shore front intermittently occupied with residences 
in a distance of twenty miles. 

The day will come when the quietude will be shared 
with many in this neighborhood, but no matter the ex- 
tent or nature of improvements or developments, Jen- 
sen's native picturesqueness will be preserved for those 
who desire the leisurely pleasures of old Jensen. 
Ancient in settlement and staid by instinct, Jensen has 
remained quaintly true to tradition; primitive, she has 
remained free from boom, but signs are seen of modern 
progressiveness by the establishment of a yacht club 
and formation of a country club, and the advent of 
sportsmen who fish in streams not yet commercialized. 

Jensen's principal industry is among the pineap- 
ples. St. Lucie's "pines" prove themselves superior to 
foreign fruits and remain as a profitable form of 
livelihood for those who follow it. The town has an 
ice plant, fish packing house, high school, several 
churches, and splendid water supply. 




The R. R. Ricou Brick Block in Jensen. 

By virtue of its healthful location and beautiful 
surroundings, Jensen is unquestionably among the 
promising towns of the county for the homeseeker. 
By homeseeker, or settler, we do not mean the "farm- 
er" or the "cattle raiser," for Jensen is different. Jen- 
sen is for the people looking for health, recreation and 
quiet retirement during the playtime of life. 

Jensen does not offer an opening to make great fi- 
nancial wealth, but it is distinctive in that it does offer 
tangible wealth in the form of health, quietude, leis- 
ure, variety and a pleasurable change from ordinary 
routine. 

For people who count on these things, Jensen's the 
place. 




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Walton's Hotel— The Walton Inn. 

IN Florida, one would think that all of the Northern 
and Western people that are coming south are lo- 
cating in this State, so many are the evidences of 
the building of homes by them, from the very handsome 
to the modest bungalow. The influx of new people is 
perhaps noticeable in a greater degree in St. Lucie 
county than many other sections of Florida, for the 
county population has increased at the rate of approxi- 
mately 1,000 people a year for a decade. 

Our county is also receiving the benefits derivable 
from an expenditure approaching five million dollars 



for various improvements. An extensive acreage of 
the most satisfying, productive soil is being bought by 
people in all parts of the country for immediate and 
future development, and it is predicted by men who 
study these kind of questions that more people will 
come to the East Coast of Florida than to any other 
locality of the United States. 

Walton will receive its share of St. Lucie county's 
growth. Walton is already receiving benefits that 
were not anticipated five years ago. As a consequence 
much additional residence property has been taken up 
and a considerable number of new homes erected. 

Walton is delightfully situated on a high bluff over- 
looking the Indian river, a few miles south of Fort 
Pierce. It is hand-in-hand with many other places 
mentioned in this booklet, as being on the Montreal- 
Miami national highway which has here an elevation 
of about 30 feet above the river, at this point two and 
one-half miles wide, with only a narrow strip of land 
separating river and ocean. 

The ocean beach opposite Walton is fine for bath- 
ing, and is equipped with bath houses and pavilion, mak- 
ing it a very popular rendezvous for picnicing parties. 

For those who prefer a quiet, cimple, pleasant and 
delightful home life there is not a more desirable loca- 
tion in the county than can be found at Walton. 

Walton's commodious hotel has a long dock stretch- 




1— BEARING COCOANUT TREE. 2— CANAL IN ST. LUCIE GAUDEN... 3— AKTESIAN WELL. 



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ing into the river, and both passenger and freight 
boats make Walton a port of call. The trunk line rail- 
road passes through the town, and such has been the 
recent volume of business at this point that the rail- 
road company has erected a new depot to accommo- 
date it. 

This increase has been brought about by the de- 
velopment of several thousand acres of fruit and vege- 
table land, starting about one mile west of the Walton 
postoffice. This land is being rapidly taken up in small 
acreages and many new settlers have come here and 
built substantial homes. Walton is charmed with the 
desirable class of people taking up residence here. 
This speaks emphatically for our attractive opportuni- 
ties which new-comers are quick to take advantage of 
when they reach here. 



Walton welcomes the settler with sufficient money 
to carry him over the transition period between buying 
land, accommodating himself to St. Lucie county con- 
ditions and the time his crops return an income. Wal- 
ton offers no inducements to the ne'er do well, but for 
the man of some means, brain and brawn, she offers 
every good thing under the sun. 

Walton people have firm faith in the future of their 
town and the surrounding natural resources. Walton's 
prospects are of the brightest. Walton's growth can 
never be permanently checked. Waltonians are al- 
ways ready to welcome people of the right caliber, and 
this is why, through the medium of this authoritative 
booklet, they are asking other northern friends to 
come south — to Walton, first. 




WALTON RESIDBNCSS: 1— MRS. L. J. SAWYER, 2— C. A. BAILEY. 



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Boat Yard and Shop of H. L. Phillips & Son. 

TO Eden belongs the honor of being the originaX 
home of the Florida pineapple industry, and of 
the oranges which gave to the Indian river va- 
riety its distinctive fame which enables them to obtain 
from 50c. to 75c. more than for the average Florida 
fruit. 

Today there are more pineapples produced on the 
beautiful undulating ridge lying between Fort Pierce 
and Sewall's Point, of which Eden is one of the central 
points, than in all the remainder of the United States 
combined. 

This ridge is the keystone to Eden. Its natural 
beauty embowered in a verdure of palms, cocoanut and 
orange trees, overlooking the waters of Indian river, 
has been known to a few people for years, but it was 
only recently that the opening of the magnificent rock 
road, the Montreal-Miami highway, passing through 
Eden, revealed its charm to hundreds of enchanted 
automobilists. The time is approaching when this 
"Riverside Drive" will be as famous and as sought-af- 
ter throughout America as the Riviera is in Europe, 
for not only does it possess the perennial charm of a 
sub-tropical shore, with the invigorating tang of the 
salt-breezes, but it unites with sufficient elevation of 
bank and adjacent rolling land to make ideally attract- 
ive building sites. Rare are such spots obtainable, 
most of them being in possession of wealthy north- 
erners. 

This beauty spot, with an exquisite vista opening 
up almost every step, is a constant delight to resi- 
dents, while to visitors, it is a veritable paradise. Sev- 
eral homes both of permanent residents and of winter 
visitors dot this American Riviera. 



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Eden Residence of F. G. McMullen, of Fort Pierce. 

The Eden Grove hotel is situated in its own orange 
and pineapple plantation two hundred yards from Eden 
station. Its outlook forms one of the most picturesque 
views on the Indian river. 

There is plenty of sport and recreation for every 
taste. Three club houses are within easy reach. Large 
and small game is obtainable by the hunter willing for 
a tramp through the woods, while fish in infinite va- 
riety swarm both the Indian and St. Lucie rivers, as 
well as the Atlantic ocean which is reached from Eden 
by a short launch ride. 

Within a mile or so to the rear of Eden are hun- 
dreds of acres of pine, muck and prairie land available 
for development, and at an extremely reasonable out- 
lay it is possible to establish a profitable agricultural 
business here at the present time. People from all 
parts of the United States are to be found in this ap- 
propriately-named community, Eden. 




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1_0RANGE AVENUE RESIDENCES OF MRS. N. CHARETTE; WILBERT WHITE AND A. A. DEMMER. 2 — ORANGE 
AVENUE RESIDENCES OF JUDGE J. R. JOHNSON; OTIS R. PARKER; MRS. SINCLAIR, AND T. J. O'BRIEN. 3— WIN- 
TER RESIDENCE ON RIVERSIDE DRIVE OF COL. C. A. GATES. OF CHARLESTON, W. VA. 5 — "CAUGHNAWAGA," 
THE BEAUTIFUL SUBURBAN HOME OF MR. AND MRS. M. E. CARD. 6— RESIDENCE OF R. D. HOLMES, ON MAG- 
NOLIA AVENUE. 

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THE PRIDE OF FORT PIERCE — THE ST. LUCIE COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL — BUILDING AND 
GROUNDS (EIGHT ACRES) COST $100,000. COMPLETED IN MARCH, 1915. 



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In the Business Section of Fort Pierce. 

NEW public buildings, modern business houses, 
miles of new streets, a splendid system of 
good roads radiating in all directions, new 
transportation connections projected, numerous fine 
homes, probably the largest single school building in 
the State, a population overflowing the city limits and 
building into what was but a few years ago open coun- 
try — these are visible evidences of the progress of Fort 
Pierce, the county seat and chief city of St. Lucie 
county. 

Fort Pierce today reflects a condition that is co-ex- 
tensive with St. Lucie county, an era of development 
which assures continuous expansion and the main- 
tenance of her position as the largest city on the east- 
ern shore-line of Florida between St. Augustine and 
Palm Beach. 

Fort Pierce grows also because of logical location. 
It is a full railway division point, this one item furnish- 
ing a payroll of over $15,000 a month; forty railway 
mail clerks make this their home; the stores have a 
payroll of about $15,000 a month; the builders, over 
$15,000 a month; the fishing industry is worth nearly 
half a million dollars, and the pineapple income fur- 
nishes approximately one and one-half million dollars. 

Fort Pierce has two strong banks, two newspapers, 
and largest lumber concern on the East Coast. Among 
general utilities. Fort Pierce has twenty miles of ce- 
ment sidewalks and ten miles of paved streets, com- 
plete sewage system, large ice plant, several hotels, 
general stores, theatres, garages, telegraph, railroad 
facilities north and south, and telephone system cover- 
ing the county and placing farmers and growers in 
touch at nearly every point. 

Electric light and water plant is owned by the city. 
It is equipped in duplicate. In case of breakdown of 
one set of machinery the other can be brought into 
play and the plant operated day and night without in- 
terruption. 




Birdseye View from Water Tower, Looking South. 

Streets are well lighted, and plans are being con- 
sidered for modern street lighting fixtures with single 
opalescent globes. 

The Board of Trade and City Council are reviewing 
plans for a sea-wall along the front of the city facing 
the Indian river. Proposals call for carrying the pres- 
ent shore line forward about 250 feet and the forming 
of a public park between the present and proposed line; 
also for a municipal pier to accommodate big passen- 
ger and freight boats. 

Probably the largest school building in the State is 
nearing completion at Fort Pierce. The new county 
school covers more ground than any similar building. 
The auditorium will seat 1,200 people, and it is 
equipped with stage, scenery and other theatrical ap- 
pliances for up to date performances. The school will 
feature manual training and domestic science. The 
eight acres of grounds will be utilized for playgrounds, 
agricultural experiment plat, and public park. 

It is interesting to note the character of building 
now active. In addition to the $75,000 high school. 




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St. Lucie County Court House and Jail. 

there is a Catholic school for boys, $30,000; new build- 
ing for the Banlc of Fort Pierce, $35,000; new Presby- 
terian church, $15,000; convent for girls, $20,000; a 
number of concrete buildings, numerous fine homes 
both within the city and nearby county points. The 
appearance of these homes can be judged when it is 
said that many of them cost from $5,000 to at least 
one at $30,000. 

Our postoffice has passed the $10,000 mark by sev- 
eral hundred dollars which entitles the city to free 
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St. Anastasia's Roman Catholic Church, School and Rectory. 

relative to the requirements of the government rela- 
tive to the numbering of residences and other details. 

Fort Pierce is also a satisfying example of a city 
without saloons, local option being among the statutes 
of the county — a city with fine religious and social ac- 
tivities, a high order of physical, mental and moral 
citizenship, good government and the direct primary. 
The courts are thoroughly non-partisan, and taxation 
quite reasonable. 

There are many other advantages which make Fort 
Pierce a good residence town. Besides the congenial 
climate, the proximity of the Atlantic ocean, there is 
splendid yachting, boating and fishing on the Indian 
river, and the backwoods furnish good hunting. St. 
Lucie county roads are a joy to the automobilist, as 
mentioned in the review of the county on another page. 

Fort Pierce particularly needs a good modern hotel, 
and there are other openings along different com- 
mercial lines awaiting the advent of the right people, 
for such, a good living and a warm welcome await. 




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AN extensive range of fine fertile country lies 
around White City set amid St. Lucie county's 
groves and gardens, about five miles south of 
the county seat. 

In locating White City on the banks of the pic- 
turesque St. Lucie river, the founders had an eye for 
the charming, for the St. Lucie, one of Florida's pretti- 
est rivers, is 100 feet wide, and 25 feet deep at this 
point, and it has been declared navigable water from 
the Atlantic ocean to about one mile above town by the 
United States War Department. 

The St. Lucie river is truly the angler's delight, for 
it teems with all kinds of fish, and the woodlands along 
its banks abound with large and small game, making 
it a hunters' and anglers' paradise that is well patron- 
ized not only by our own people but by visitors as well. 

In and around White City are well-kept roads. A 



newly completed county rock road runs direct from the 
railway station at Carson to White City, and the road 
to Fort Pierce is expected to be completely hard-sur- 
faced in the near future, four miles of the distance be- 
ing finished at the time of writing. Oleander avenue 
has been graded and surfaced with marl for a mile and 
a half to the south of Midway, and arrangements are 
being made to treat Pineapple avenue in the same man- 
ner, while other thoroughfares are under consideration 
for the same treatment. 

White City has attracted a population of approxi- 
mately 300 intelligent and hospitable people from all 
parts of the world — a large number coming from Chi- 
cago. The latitude is far enough south to insure 
exceedingly pleasant weather conditions the year 
around, and the prospects of prosperity and a life of 
comparative ease have exerted an influence which will 
ultimately result in greater diversification of activities, 
progression of the community as a whole, and stability 
of values not thought of today. 

Agriculture is our chief industry, and the increase 
in the number of those engaged in farming and fruit 
growing is reflected in the flourishing growth of the 
community, many settlers being supplied with suf- 
ficient capital to enable them to extend their opera- 
tions to any degree as might suit their fancy or pur- 
pose, while others are accumulating means of support 
for their older days. 

White City is not a one-crop section. Vegetables 
and fruits usually grown elsewhere are seen at their 
best. Increasing attention to potato growing is notice- 
able — beans, peppers, melons, cucumbers, pineapples, 
guavas, strawberries, and so on, are grown to a consid- 
erable extent and profit for market and home use. 




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These with other tropical and sub-tropical fruits, our 
home milk supply, cream and homemade butter, enable 
White City people to live on a liberal scale and at a 
lower cost than a similar scale of living in many other 
places. There is no cry here of the high cost of living, 
for as big returns from a like amount of capital and 
effort can be obtained in the White City section as in 
any other part of Florida. With a reasonable amount 
of capital, backed by intelligent application and scien- 
tific methods, the possibilities for trucking, broad-acre 
farming or citrus culture are almost limitless. 

Here we have one of the rare localities in all the 
United States where bananas are successfully grown 
on a commercial basis. Under shade, and with irriga- 
tion, banana growing is proving profitable, a conserva- 
tive estimate of returns at a per-acre rate being from 
$200 to $500. 

Sugar cane grows to perfection, the Japanese cane 
making excellent green fodder for stock. What has 
been said in the survey of the county about stock 
raising applies with particular stress to White City. 
All kinds of forage for making plump cattle and hogs 
can be easily grown here, and our surrounding country 
affords an ample opportunity. Many Western cattle 
experts have predicted the fame of Florida as a cattle 
raising State. Certainly climate and feeding condi- 
tions are here — the lack is men; opportunity is here — 
it simply wants seizing. Who among the readers of 
this article will reap the benefit? 

There are more bearing citrus groves here than in 
any other single section of the county, and many of the 
finest groves in Florida are here located. Upwards of 
50,000 boxes of fruit are being shipped this season. 




Row of Young Orange Trees. 

and nearly 1,000 crates of guavas. To illustrate the 
various kinds of fruit grown in and around White City, 
we beg to say that on one ten-acre farm there are 
grown 25 varieties of fruit. There is not a day in the 
year that the owner can not step out into his grove or 
garden and gather fruit fresh from the trees or bushes 
for home consumption. 

Additional acreage is continuously being brought 
under for fruit raising purposes, and sales of bearing 
groves are often made at prices which range from $500 
to $1,000 an acre, showing the value of a good grove 
from an investment point of view. 

To take care of shipments, a packing house associa- 
tion has been organized at White City, and a modern 
packing house has been built to take care of oranges 
and grapefruit and is now in operation. A Citrus Pro- 
tective association is already in operation, the purpose 
of which is the protection of citrus groves from any 
injurious pests that might at any time attack the 




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trees or fruit in this vicinity. While there is at pres- 
ent no real need of such an organization, it was 
thought best to be prepared for an aggressive attack 
upon any enemy before a stronghold could be obtained. 
The White City Nursery Association, uniting several 
citrus nurseries under one head, all under efficient and 
expert management, is producing thousands of the 
finest citrus trees in the State. 

In addition to our prosperous agricultural indus- 
tries, there are several commercial interests here, in- 
cluding a saw mill and a tile works; both enjoy a wide 
distribution for their products. A small jelly factory 
is turning out a very superior quality of jellies and pre- 
serves of such varieties as guava, grape, kumquat, 
mulberry, and the like. 

Our community life is along simple, restful lines. 
A number of associations look after their respective 
interests — Women's club. Improvement club and Nurs- 
ery association are among the most active. The Im- 
provement club owns a club house and hall. We have 
a good school with regular high school grade. Among 
the fraternal orders, the W. O. W. Camp No. 322 meets 
semi-monthly, and our religious life is very perceptibly 
advancing. A neat, commodious church building has 
recently been erected on Midway, and regular services 
are now being held therein. The lot on which the 
structure is located is sufficiently large for the erection 
of a comfortable pastor's home when conditions war- 
rant such a step. 

A number of neat and attractive residences have 
recently been built in White City and plans are under 
way for the erection of others at an early date, show- 
ing a steady and permanent increase in the population 
and size of our community. As a desirable home site 




A St. Lucie County Watermelon Field. 

White City possesses many advantages over the usual 
rural community and is unexcelled. 

But a limited space like this does not do credit to 
the attractiveness of White City — mere words cannot 
impress the real beauty of our country ; you must come 
and see for yourself. Personal investigation is the only 
way you can connect up with any one of the tangible 
opportunities which lie all around. To the world at 
large we extend a hearty welcome. Now is the oppor- 
tune time to act. Real estate, while very reasonable in 
price, is steadily advancing in value and indications 
point to the conclusion that within a very short time 
this section of St. Lucie County is to enter upon an era 
of vast development and prosperity. The person con- 
templating an investment or expecting to make his 
home in this section should seize the opportunity while 
it is offered and get in on the ground floor. 




1— SIX MONTHS OLD GRAPEFRUIT BUDS AT WHITE CITV. 2— IN A WHITE CITY NURSERY. 



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Diniiiage Canal on the Fort Pierce Farlll^. 

ONE of St. Lucie county's new-old communities is 
that of Viking, situated a few miles north of 
Fort Pierce. Viking's present-day growth re- 
peats the common history of the healthy, steady ad- 
vance of the entire county, and of the State in general. 

Viking is a notably large shipping point and mar- 
keting outlet for a splendid area of citrus, pineapple 
and vegetable industries, and quite naturally, around 
the shipping point many homes have been erected, 
and school facilities are furnished by the county. 

There is boating and fishing on the Indian river, 
bathing on the beach of the Atlantic ocean, hunting in 
the back country, and ample opportunity for rest and 
leisure for those seeking a change from strenuous life. 

Viking's bid for prominence began to be heard in 
the winter of 1905 when Mr. R. N. Koblegard came to 
St. Lucie from West Virginia in the interest of his 
young son's health. The opportunities offering in the 
county, and especially at that time in the growing of 
pineapples, which was the leading industry, greatly 
impressed him. He purchased a farm, and the follow- 
ing summer induced Mr. Frank Armstrong and other 
West Virginia associates to engage in the growing of 
pineapples in a large way. Thus originated the 
Seminole Fruit Company, which is now such an im- 
portant factor in the pineapple business and the 
growth of Viking. 

The Seminole's present acreage at Viking is about 
174 acres in pineapples and 27 in citrus fruits. Last 
season the pineapple crop amounted to over 37,000 
crates, equal to 125 carloads, and brought over $60,000. 

While engaged in this work, Mr. Koblegard and his 
associates saw possibilities in a wider field, through 
the development of the rich prairie land to the west of 




Farm and Residence of Edwin Binney on Fort Pierce Farms. 

Pineapple Ridge, and at once set about acquiring a 
tract of this land containing 36,000 acres. With the 
completion of an extensive system of drainage canals 
on this tract, the entire Viking district is being brought 
under cultivation. Many farmers, both native and 
from the north, are successfully growing a marked 
variety of vegetables, field and forage crops, and many 
are paying special attention to the establishment of 
citrus fruit groves, under the advice of the Fort Pierce 
Farms Company, of which Messrs. Koblegard and 
Armstrong are the moving personalities. 

The Fort Pierce Farms Company is building a 
complete road system throughout the district, thus 
providing each farm with ready access to a good 
thoroughfare. These roads are built of the clay, marl 
and shell dredged from the bottom of the canals. 

It is in the center of the tract of the Fort Pierce 
Farms Company that the previously mentioned Semi- 
nole Fruit Company's operations are carried on; in 
fact, the entire development of Viking has revolved 
around this one institution. 

It will be a revelation to the farmer of the west and 
north who thinks of Florida farming as a man with a 
hoe proposition, or a negro with a mule, to see at Vik- 
ing a powerful tractor pulling large disc plows and har- 
rows and that with this 60 horse-power caterpillar 
tractor the cabbage palmettoes and small pine trees 
are pulled out by the roots, with a great saving of time 
and labor. Twenty acres of land can be plowed and 
double-disced every 24 hours by this machinery. 

Another development well under way that will in- 
crease the commercial and shipping activities of Vik- 
ing is the Ponce de Leon Grove which will eventually 
contain 200 acres of citrus fruit trees. The manager 
of this grove, Mr. C. R. Negus, is an enterprising 
Pennsylvanian, who came to Viking some years ago 
and, appreciating the opportunities here, quickly took 
advantage of them. 

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C. A. Taylor's Bam on Fort Pierce Farms. 

In addition to these enterprises, some prominent 
northern fruit dealers are looking after their source of 
supply by converting 1,000 acres into a citrus fruit 
grove. There are a number of smaller groves being 
set. Mr. Edwin Binney, of New York, has a remark- 
ably pretty grove about two miles west of Viking. Mr. 
Binney combines the beautiful with the practical in 
the development of his property. Throughout the full 
length of his 80 acres on the Viking road, he has plant- 



ed cocoanut palms alternating with Australian pines. 
The young growth is shown in the photograph. 

While it is true the farmers in this district pay 
greatest attention to the growing of fruits, yet they 
do not fail, also, to appreciate and take advantage of 
the fine opportunities offered in raising a wide variety 
of vegetables and field crops. Among those grown 
most plentifully are, of the vegetables, potatoes, to- 
matoes, beans, cucumbers, cabbage, lettuce, etc.; and 
of the field crops, oats, the different grasses, Kaffir 
corn, etc. 

One great aid to the farmers in raising both vege- 
tables and citrus fruits is the fact that they can easily 
obtain artesian wells and thus protect their crops 
against possible droughts. 

As the development of the Fort Pierce Farms dis- 
trict progresses the operations of the company nat- 
urally become more and more centralized about Viking, 
which means the erection of many additional bunga- 
lows, winter homes and other buildings. And this ex- 
pansion, added to Viking's present activities, will com- 
mand for her as great attention as given to any other 
place in the county. 

Viking is ready for you when you are ready for 
Viking. 




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Okeechobee 



OKEECHOBEE is another center of attraction in 
the development of the rich prairie, timber and 
hammock lands of St. Lucie county. The small 
fruit groves planted by the pioneers and the larger 
grapefruit and orange groves set out within the past 
ten years demonstrate the possibilities of the Okeecho- 
bee section — a region that will help advance Florida 
into the front rank of agriculture and fruit growing 
among the States of the Union. 

Try to imagine an infinitely big country that grows 
the finest corn, cane, oranges, grapefruit and other 
fruits, vegetables of all kinds and provides pasture for 
livestock every month in the year, with a mild and de- 
lightful climate, warmed by tropical ocean breezes in 
winter and cooled by the same breezes in summer, and 
you have a faint conception of this God's country 
which is destined to become one of the greatest food- 
producing sections in the Union. 

The townsite of Okeechobee is in the southwest 
corner of the county, 38 miles west of Fort Pierce, just 
north of the extreme northerly end of Lake Okeecho- 
bee to which communication is had by the Onosho- 
hatchee river. This river (pronounced 0-no-sho- 



hatchee) is a beautiful stream, with many winding 
curves apparently ending in vaulted halls of lovely 
green foliage, pillared by tall palmettoes, towering 
among immense cypress trees which form arches over- 
head. This attractively adorned river, with its densely 
wooded shores, the brilliant flowering shrubs and vines 
interlacing all, make a trip on its waters a veritable 
voyage in Fairyland. 

The soil in the vicinity of Okeechobee is largely a 
dark sandy loam — much of it being underlaid with clay 
and marl. There is muck, too, in abundance, and a 
large area of rich black soil resulting from leaf mold — 
the most fertile agricultural land known. The lay of 
the land could hardly be improved. It is just a trifle 
on the rolling order with sufficient fall toward the lake 
to cause the current in the Onoshohatchee river which 
passes through the townsite to flow swiftly. 

Okeechobee holds a strategic position on the 
Onoshohatchee river, where the praries, timber lands 
and the Everglades meet at the north end of the lake, 
the legitimate point and logical center where the busi- 
ness of the great lake, a veritable inland sea, and these 
fertile lands naturally converge. 

At the townsite of Okeechobee and the surrounding 
lands, the elevation ranges about 33 feet. The townsite 
has been carefully located and platted with wide 
streets and avenues. Plans are now under way for 
hardsurfacing the principal streets of the town, with 
especial attention to Parrot avenue, leading through 
the town to Lake Okeechobee two and a half miles 
south. 

Direct transportation provided by the Okeechobee 
branch of the Florida East Coast Railway having its 
lake terminal here necessarily insures an enormous 
and rapid development of the section. This is further 
assured by the fact that the State of Florida has al- 
ready contracted for the construction of the huge 




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Grass Prairie at Okeechobee. 

Okeechobee-St. Lucie drainage and ship canal, extend- 
ing from the east shore of Lake Okeechobee to the 
south fork of tlie St. Lucie river, a distance of 24 miles. 
This canal, having a minimum bottom width of 160 
feet and depth of 14 feet, will provide communication 
with the Atlantic ocean and control the waters of Lake 
Okeechobee, preventing their overflow and draining 
thousands of acres of fertile soil. It is estimated that 
in constructing this canal a total of 20,000,000 yards of 
material will be excavated, at a cost of over $1,616,000. 
The work is to be completed within four years. 

Lake Okeechobee is the second largest body of 
fresh water wholly within the United States. It is two 
and a half miles south of the townsite and measures 40 
miles long by 30 miles wide, with a maximum depth of 
15 feet. The elevation of the surface of the lake is 
about 21 feet above sea level. This great lake is an 
open sheet of water with several small islands in its 
southern part. From its western side there is an out- 
let to the Gulf of Mexico by way of a canal to the Ca- 
loosahatchee river. From the east and southeast go 
the four state canals now building and to be built to 
the East Coast with outlets at Miami, Fort Lauderdale, 
Deerfield and Lake Worth, near West Palm Beach. The 
Fort Lauderdale canal has been open to navigation for 
some time. 

Into the very north end of Lake Okeechobee flows 
the short but beautiful Onoshohatchee river. This 
river divides the townsite of Okeechobee and provides 
not only a connection with the lake, but afl'ords a safe 
harbor for boats and furnishes means of connection 
for traffic between the railroad and the lake. It is from 
100 to 150 feet wide and has a depth of from four to fif- 
teen feet. The river is being dredged out to permit the 
free passage of good sized boats from the lake to the 




Road Through Hammock at Okeechobee. 

town. A spur track will run from the railroad yards 
to a convenient point on the river where dockage fa- 
cilities will be provided. 

From the lake will come wealth from its fisheries, 
its commerce and pleasure craft. From the forests, 
a lumber and turpentine and allied business of great 
value. The prairie lands and the hammocks will be 
wealth producers for the farmers and fruit growers, 
and owners of rice and sugar plantations, the dairy 
men and the live stock raisers and general farmers. 

On the west of the townsite lie miles and miles of 
prairie with a growth of wild grasses and scrub pal- 
mettoes, while here and there clumps of pine and ham- 
mock dot the horizon. This is the feeding ground of 
thousands of range cattle and for such purposes is un- 




ONOSHOHATCHEE RIVER AT OKEECHOBEE. 



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Railroad Yard at Okeechobee. 

excelled. It is safe to say that for stock raising and 
general farming, for citrus and sub-tropical fruits and 
for trucking the lands adjacent to Okeechobee are the 
equal of any in the United States. While, both in and 
adjacent to Okeechobee, real estate is now selling at 
very reasonable prices it is rapidly increasing in value 
and those who contemplate investing here would do 
well to act quickly. 

More than 75 families live in and adjacent to the 
townsite of Okeechobee and 65 voters are registered 
for the district, while the postoffice serves approxi- 
mately 700 pations, including a number of lake fisher- 
men. The public school last session enrolled nearly 
100 pupils. Plans are being considered for the erection 
of a modern building and otherwise improving the 
status of the school. Among the recent improvements 
within the townsite might be mentioned the construc- 
tion of several large business buildings, including a gen- 
eral mercantile store 100 by 150 feet, a bakery, a hotel 
and restaurant, furniture store, hardware store, drug 
store, complete lumber yard, large fish packing house, 
and several other business establishments. In addi- 
tion to these, a fine concrete building for the Bank of 
Okeechobee is going up; an ice and power plant, a new 
30-room modern hotel and other business structures 
will probably be built in the near future. In short, 
there is every reason to Hfelieve that an era of unpre- 
cedented growth and development is ahead of Okee- 
chobee and that the fast-growing town is destined to 
excel the fondest hopes of its promoters. 

Okeechobee has a brilliant future in prospect. Its 
splendid location in St. Lucie county insures good 
health in one of the most comfortable climates in the 
world. A city for homes, for business, a Mecca for the 
tourist, the winter resident and the sportsman. 



Small Hammock on Prairie at Okeechobee. 

To sum up, the town of Okeechobee will be support- 
ed by the tourist, the fisherman, the general farmer, 
the livestock farmer, the lumberman, the fruit grower 
and truck farmer. It is being extensively advertised 
throughout the country and its superior advantages 
and rare opportunities are attracting the attention of 
thousands, many of whom are becoming financially in- 
terested. Although only a few months old, it is as- 
suming city-like proportions and is bounding ahead at 
rapid strides. Situated at the gateway of the great 
Everglades, backed up by the products of thousands of 
acres of fertile land, located on the banks of a vast in- 
land sea, blessed by ideal climatic conditions, populated 
by wide-awake, progressive and able business men, 
Okeechobee should grow into a great, busy, permanent 
city. 

Look over the Okeechobee section of St. Lucie 
county. You may find it all your ideals have pictured. 
An investigation will be worth while, whether an in- 
vestment is made or not; an investment may mean fi- 
nancial success. The town is only a trifle over twelve 
hours' journey by rail from Jacksonville and can be 
reached from Fort Pierce and adjacent points by auto- 
mobile. 

There is no auction, scheme of allotment or compli- 
cated plan in the sale of lots or lands at Okeechobee. 
Sales are made on the basis of first come, first served. 
All sales are for land as represented. Each individual 
is handled under the personal supervision of the resi- 
dent representative on the property. 

When choosing your Florida home, with the inten- 
tion of permanent location, it should receive and com- 
mand more earnestness of purpose than any deed of 
your life. It is the one act of all others from which 
chance should be eliminated. 



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Spillway on Main Canal of Indian River Farms Co. 

RIGHT in the heart of Florida's famous Indian 
river citrus country and approximately half- 
way between St. Lucie river on the south and 
Sebastian river on the north, paralleling the Florida 
East Coast railway for twelve miles, the muck- marl, 
prairie and pinelands are being transformed into bear- 
ing orange and grapefruit groves, productive farms 
and semi-tropical parklands studded with flowers in a 
riot of color. Land, which previous to the undertaking 
of efficient model drainage operations by the Indian 
River Farms Company, was seemingly of little use, but 
now, when under cultivation is valued at several hun- 
dred dollars an acre, according to crop and yield. 

The headquarters of this district so rich in fruit 
growing and agricultural opportunities is the promis- 
ing town of 

VERO 

You'll like Vero, with its 70-foot hard surfaced 
streets, cement walks and curbing, parked sidewalks, 




business buildings, attractively designed and well built 
residences on generous sized lots, modern hotel, the 
Sleepy Eye Lodge, fronting the Montreal-Miami high- 
way, extensive landscape park system, fine school 
house in a two-acre playground, and liberal reserva- 
tions for churches. Plans are being formulated for a 
Methodist church. Catholic church, German Lutheran 
church and Swedish church. The community's citrus 
fruits are made ready for market in a large modern 
packing house recently erected by the Vero Citrus 
Growers Association, which is a branch of the Florida 
Citrus Exchange. A number of new residences and 
business houses are now under construction. 

Under the direction of Mr. A. W. Young, Florida 
manager for the Indian River Farms Company, one 
hundred thousand dollars are being spent on road 
building through the neighboring agricultural lands, 
and nearly half a million dollars for a canal and ditch 




UESIDENCE OF J. U. UAKEU, AT VEKO. 



Vero's Hotel — The Sleepy Eye Lodge. 

system. Although not quite completed, the work ac- 
complished so far stands as a monument to the care 
and watchfulness of those in charge and those direct- 
ing this extensive system. 

Thus the adjacent reclamation project indicates the 
tangible character of Vero's growth — the emerging 
from its probation period and its journey along the 
road of success. 

Within the area, Vero has nearly fifty thousand 
acres of magnificent fruit, pineapple, vegetable and 
forage growing land, much of it so free of under- 
growth that it is ready for cultivation. Indeed, one of 
the attractions of this locality is a well-developed bear- 
ing orange and grapefruit grove a short distance from 
Vero. The Walker grove has been visited by thou- 
sands of people and countless others have heard of it. 
In its center are nine trees thirty years old, which in 
the 1913-14 season each yielded 25 crates of fine fruit. 
On this eight-acre grove indications are that the owner 



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productive area centering at Vero and the ever-in- 
creasing expansion, a prosperous future is assured this 
strategically situated gateway. 

There are commercial business opportunities in 
many lines of business. 

Recreation opportunities are first class. Fishing 
yields abundantly on the Indian river. A trip into the 








Raising Hay at Vero. 

will net $10,000 next season. His refusal of $30,000 
for the grove is a demonstration of the profits possible 
by energy and foresight. 

The Huston Fruit Company, of Vero, has a large 
acreage under cultivation — tomatoes, beans, squash, 
onions, etc. The picture shows the excellent state of 
development. 

That Vero is destined to become an important ship- 
ping point was stated by a Florida State deputy of the 
Shell Fish Commission, who recently was in Vero summers cooled by ocean breezes; warm winters, am- 
staking out oyster leases. pie rainfall. 



.: i.^..i > aiie at Vero. 

woods brings the sportsman into touch with quail, tur- 
key, duck, etc. 

Climate is similar to other sections of the county — 



With population, trade and traffic of this large. 



Stop off at Vero. 




1— FLAGLER SYSTEM DEPOT, VERO. 2— RANK GKUWTH ON VERU HAAIMUCK LAND. 3— .MAIN UL TFALL CANAL 

AT VERO. 

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Sebastian 




THE first town of importance reached by motoring 
parties from the north on the National High- 
way, after entering St. Lucie county, is Sebas- 
tian, which is located two miles south of the junction 
of the Sebastian river with the Indian river. It is 
quite a junction point, as it is the junction of the Fells- 
mere railroad with the Flagler System. 

The advantage of a railroad junction to a town 
adds greatly to its importance. The Fellsmere Com- 
pany has over 100,000 acres of land developed or being 
developed, and all passenger and freight traffic must 
go by way of Sebastian. 

Facing the beautiful Indian river and built along 



the high shore line Sebastian is delightfully situated 
and being surrounded by orange and grapefruit groves 
it presents a most attractive appearance. It possesses 
the advantages of river, railroad and fine building 
ridge, with the Montreal-to-Miami National Highway 
passing through its centre. 

Sebastian is twenty-seven miles north of Fort 
Fierce, the county seat, and is rapidly developing into 
one of the important towns of the county. It is sur- 
rounded by large tracts of fine hammock lands, which 
are being gradually developed into splendid citrus fruit 
groves and garden tracts. The ridge lands are almost 
immune from frost, the young bloom and buds pass- 
ing through the coldest weather without the slightest 
injury. There is good hunting and fishing and an ideal 
climate for those who are looking for a quiet, pleasant 
place to live or enjoy the winter months, among a 
pleasant people, who are always ready to extend a cor- 
dial welcome to strangers. 

The health conditions in Sebastian are ideal. There 
is rarely any sickness, but in the event of accidents or 
slight illness there is one good physician, who devotes 
a good share of his time to his splendid irrigated or- 
ange grove, from which he derives a much larger in- 
come than from his practice as a physician. 

Sebastian has a large public school, two churches, 
a fine Improvement club hall, two new hotels, several 
stores, postoffice, express office, telegraph office and a 
commodious depot. It has an extensive fishing busi- 
ness, shipping quantities of fish the year around to the 
big markets of the east and west, in fact this is an im- 




1— JUNCTION OF INDIAN AND SEBASTIAN RIVERS. 2— CABBAGE FIELD. 3— SEBASTIAN PUBLIC SCHOOL. 



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1 — Residence of Dr. David Rose, Sebastian. 

portant shipping point, as the following figures will 
show: 

Fish shipped in one year 6,000 barrels 

Grapefruit and oranges 20,000 boxes 

Guavas 900 boxes 

Garden truck of all kinds 10,000 boxes 

The Sebastian river flowing into the Indian river a 
short distance north, divides the counties of Brevard 
and St. Lucie. At the junction of these two rivers is 
some of the finest hook and line fishing in this section 
of the State. The Indian river is two and one-half 
miles wide, opposite Sebastian, and is separated from 
the ocean by the peninsula, which at this point is only 
three hundred yards in width. 

The inlet question, now so much talked of, is almost 
an assured fact. The money has been guaranteed and 
the Government has assigned a competent engineer to 
report on the best method of constructing the inlet, or 
connection, between the Atlantic ocean and the Indian 
river. It is located opposite the mouth of the Sebastian 
river and when completed will add greatly to the fish- 
ing industry and otherwise. The barrel factory carries 
an abundant supply at all times, so the fishermen al- 
ways have barrels for their shipments to the northern 
States. 

Its being located so near the Atlantic ocean the ad- 
vantages of the ocean breezes cannot be surpassed. No 
matter how warm the days may be in mid-summer, the 
evenings are always cool and pleasant. A large per 
cent, of the population is from the North and they 
much prefer the climate of Sebastian, not only the win- 
ter, but also the summer months, this mostly on ac- 
count of the ocean breezes as above mentioned. 

A number of small motor boats are for hire and 
passenger boats make schedule trips, as advertised. 



2 — Idlewilde Inn, Sebastian. 

Automobile livery at popular rates, also garage service 
for owners of cars. 

The famous Pelican Island is situated one mile 
south of Sebastian in the Indian river. This is a Gov- 
ernment reservation for the protection of the pelicans. 
The Government also has another island two miles 
west, which is a rookery for plumed birds. The game 
wardens have charge of these islands and do not allow 
persons to land without a permit. A good view can, 
however, be obtained from a boat, as parties are al- 
lowed within a short distance of the islands. 




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A CONVINCING demonstration of St. Lucie coun- 
ty's wonderful progress is found in the thriv- 
ing town of Fellsmere, located in the north- 
eastern section of the county, near the Indian river. 
Where, hardly more than two years ago, there were 
only the pine trees, Fellsmere has grown up almost by 
magic — a live, hustling, progressive town, a fine ex- 
ample of the agricultural and horticultural resources 
available through the fortunate combination of soil 
and climate of St. Lucie county and the Indian river 
district. 

Fellsmere is the beginning of a future city. If you 
step off the train at the Sebastian station of the Flor- 
ida East Coast railroad, and then take the connecting 
Fellsmere railroad for the pleasant ride of ten miles 
westward to Fellsmere, you will find the citizens of 



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Fellsmere have comfortable homes surrounded by at- 
tractive gardens and fine lawns. Well stocked stores 
and supply houses, postofiice with two incoming mails 
daily, telegraph ofiice, express office, electric light 
plant, ice plant, a substantial bank, three hotels, lum- 
ber yard, vegetable packing house, two saw mills, and 
one of the best citrus nurseries in Florida are included 
in the many commercial enterprises. 

Fellsmere's religious and educational needs, and 
her facilities for social entertainments are well pro- 
vided for. A fine school building has recently been 
erected here by the ofiicials of St. Lucie county and a 
sub-school district has been organized. 

The Fellsmere Farms Company has donated a lot 
for the public library, and through the generosity of a 




1— BEAUTIFUL LAKE WILMINGTON ON FELLSMERE TRACT. 2— VIEW SHOWING CANAL AT EARLY STAGE OF 

DRAINAGE OPERATIONS. 

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friend of Fellsmere, a building will soon be erected for 
the use of the Library Association — the library al- 
ready being well supplied with books. The Fellsmere 
Tribune, published weekly, reflects the industrial and 
social activities of the town. 

Opportunities for amusements are to be found at 
the theatre, and in athletic field, where there is a base- 
ball diamond and grandstand. Because of Fellsmere's 
pleasant surroundings, and because of the excellent fish- 
ing and hunting close to town, the people of Fellsmere 
take considerable interest in these recreations. 

Although life at Fellsmere is full of interesting ac- 
tivities and enjoyments, it is, nevertheless, a serious, 
hard-working community, for Fellsmere owes its ex- 
istence to the productivity of the extensive tract of 
land known as Fellsmere Farms, and to those people 
whose ambition is stirred by the possibilities of the 



rich rewards obtainable through the tilling of the gen- 
erously-endowed soil. 

It is interesting to learn that the 118,000 acres of 
land, now known as Fellsmere Farms, was not avail- 
able for intensive farming until a company with large 
financial resources could be organized to carry out a 
comprehensive plan of development. This has been 
done by the Fellsmere Farms Company, an organiza- 
tion of wealthy business men of New York, Philadel- 
phia, and of Florida. 

Planning the establishment of an ideal farming and 
fruit growing communitj', the company employed en- 
gineers and agriculturists to investigate the features 
bearing on the successful realization of their ideas. 
Favorable reports being rendered, work started with 
the construction of the standard gauge Fellsmere rail- 
road from Sebastian to Fellsmere townsite, which road 




FELLSMERE PRODUCTS: 1— SUGAR CANE. 2— SEA ISLAND COTTON. 3— IRISH POTATOES. 4— SUGAR CANE AT 

DEMONSTRATION FARM. 

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will be extended further on through the farming sec- 
tion. 

During the three years of operations more than 
$1,500,000 have been spent, chiefly on drainage de- 
velopments, with the satisfying result that the Fells- 
mere Farms development can be justly classed among 
the foremost projects of the kind in America. 

Thirty-six and one-fourth miles of canals from thir- 
ty to one hundred twenty-two feet wide and from six 
to eighteen feet deep have already been completed and 
over one hundred twenty miles of ditches. In all ap- 
proximately 3,325,000 cubic yards of excavation has 
been finished. These large scale improvements, and 
the intensive cultivation of the soil on a smaller scale 
by hundreds of settlers, make possible the Fellsmere 
of today. 

The company's policy has made small acreages 
available to a large number of people throughout the 
United States, and hardly a day passes without some 



new arrivals settling upon their land. The extensive 
acreage now being cultivated and the variety of the 
crops, from oranges and grapefruit, to hay and sugar 
cane, bear eloquent testimony both as to the capabili- 
ties of the settler and his industry, and to the accuracy 
of the preliminary investigation preparatory to the 
company's development. For anyone seeking farming 
as a business, Fellsmere presents an admirable location. 

Fellsmere's citizens are progressive, prosperous, 
hospitable, and full of pride in what they have ac- 
complished. They believe that the improvement work 
which is in progress will make their town the center 
of one of the country's favored agricultural sections. 

The people of Fellsmere invite visitors at any time 
and at any season of the year, and sincerely hope that 
all who read this synopsis, necessarily brief, will feel 
they are welcome to investigate Fellsmere in any way 
they please, and to learn by personal observation that 
here is an actual, lively, convincing illustration of what 
St. Lucie county holds forth to men of ambition. 




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PrincipalStationsAlong the Main Line United StatCS Weather ButeaU 



OF THE 

FLORIDA EAST COAST RAILWAY 

FROM JACKSONVILLE TO KEY WEST. 

oTATinxTo Miles From County 

^5lAUUiN^ Jacksonville 

South Jacksonville Across River Duval 

Bayard 15 " 

St. Augustine 37 St Johns 

Elkton 47 

Hastings 54 

Palatka 65 Putnam 

San Mateo 66 

Dupont 91 

Ormond 104 Volusia 

Daytona 110 

Port Orange 115 

New Smyrna 125 " 

Hawks Park 127 

Oak Hill 136 

Titusville 155 Brevard 

Cocoa 173 

Rockledge 175 

Eau Gallie 190 

Military Park 192 

Melbourne 194 

Grant 206 

Roseland 212 St. Lucie 

Sebastian 215 " 

Wabasso 219 

Quav 222 

Toledo 223 

Gifford 226 

Vero 228 

Oslo 231 

Viking 235 

St. Lucie 239 

Fort Pierce 242 

White City 246 

Eldred 247 

Ankona 249 

Walton 252 

Eden 254 

Jensen 257 " 

Rio 259 

Gosling 260 

Waveland 261 

Stuart 261 Palm Beach 

Sewalls Point 264 

Hobe Sound 275 

Jupiter 283 

West Palm Beach 300 

Palm Beach 301 

Lantana 308 " 

Hypoluxo 309 

Boynton 312 

Delray 317 

Yamato 321 Dade 

Fort Lauderdale 341 

Dania 345 

Little River 361 

Buena Vista 363 

Miami 366 

Cocoanut Grove 371 

Perrine 382 " 

Homestead 394 " 

Tavernier 431 Monroe 

Long Key 457 " 

Knights Key 477 

Key West 497 



Statistics 



Temperature and Rainfall at Principal Points Along 
The East Coast of Florida. 



The following table of temperature and rainfall, 
based on a ten-year average from United States 
Weather Bureau statistics, will give the prospective 
homeseeker a comprehensive idea of what to expect in 
temperature and rainfall along the East Coast of 
Florida : 

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MONTHS ^ 'S « > 

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TR TR TR TR TR TR 

January . .56 3.0 58 3.6 62 4.3 67 4.1 69 3.0 70 2.1 

February .61 3.0 58 2.8 65 4.0 67 3.0 70 3.2 72 1.7 

March ...62 2.9 64 3.0 69 3.3 70 1.7 73 3.0 72 1.2 

April 68 2.0 69 3.0 73 2.8 74 2.6 76 3.8 76 1.3 

May 73 4.4 77 4.6 77 3.9 76 8.0 79 7.1 80 3.5 

June 78 4.9 70 5.2 80 5.5 80 5.5 82 7.0 83 4.1 

July 80 6.0 80 3.4 82 5.9 82 6.1 83 8.6 84 4.4 

August . .80 5.0 80 5.2 83 6.6 82 6.3 83 8.0 84 4.8 

September. 77 7.4 79 7.2 81 6.1 80 8.8 82 11.1 82 7.4 

October ..65 4.1 72 6.3 75 4.7 78 5.2 78 9.0 79 5.3 

November. 63 3.2 64 3.4 73 3.1 72 3.4 73 2.0 74 2.6 

December .58 2.5 57 2.9 66 2.5 68 1.9 69 2.7 70 1.9 

Annual ...68 48.1 69 50.6 74 53.5 75 56.6 76 63.5 77 40.3 

T — Mean monthly and average temperature in degrees. 
R — Average monthly and total precipitation, inches and 
tenths. 



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